Thousands of residents on the west coast are confronted with uncertain months ahead

“The army forced us. I, my wife and my family. We didn’t take anything with us.”

Alaa office is trying to figure out how to manage its dramatically changed circumstances.

“We left behind the documents, clothes and everything we had at home.”

It has been a month since the Israeli army attacked the Tulkarm refugee camp, which made thousands of residents escape.

In the local office of Palestin’s governor, we found displaced residents of the camp seeking help.

Some struggled to find available places to hire. Others, such as d -office, had to extract important things, but were prevented from returning to their homes by the Israeli army.

“My wife is expecting a baby next week,” G -N office said. “I can’t take her to the hospital because I need insurance documents and my ID, but they were left at home.”

What Israel calls “Operation Iron Wall” against the Palestinian armed groups caused an emigration of about 40,000 people from four camps in the northern part of the occupied West Coast: Tulkarm, Nur Shams, Jenin and Far’A.

Aid agencies call it the biggest forced displacement of the Palestinians on the West Coast ever since He was captured by the Israeli forces during the Six Day War in 1967.

This is also the first time one of the camps created in the early 1950s for Palestinians who escaped or were driven out of their homes during the Israeli War of Independence were almost completely evacuated.

As the operation began in January, the Israeli forces plowed roads and demolished homes.

At the eastern end of the Tulkarm camp you can see a wide scar, where there were once tightly packed houses. Israeli soldiers can be seen patrolling what now looks like a street.

Elsewhere, the roads in the camp have been fired, armored bulldozers, creating piles of land and mud pools. The sidewalks and fronts of the stores are left enhanced.

The UN concrete sign standing above the hassle -free entrance of the camp was demolished.

At least 51 Palestinians, including seven children, have been killed by the Israeli forces on the northern west coast since the beginning of the operation, according to the UN.

Three soldiers were also killed by Palestinian artillerymen, one of them during a fire exchanges in Jenin and two others in the attack at a Tubas checkpoint, the announcement said.

The Israeli army says it is dealing with the Palestinian militant groups based in the camps – groups that accuse a series of attacks of roadside bombs against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the army was “at war with Islamic terrorism in Judea and Samaria” – the term Israel used to describe the West Coast.

He said he had instructed Israel’s defense forces (IDF) “to prepare for a prolonged stay in the camps that were cleared for next year.”

At the same time, Katz ordered tanks to take up positions in Jenin Lager and the surrounding city for the first time in more than 20 years.

In addition to emphasizing the heavy message of the government, it is not clear what role the four tanks will play.

“IDF is working in very complex urban environments,” said a military officer provided for anonymity.

“We did this in Gaza, we did it in the villages of South Lebanon,” the employee said, citing Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah.

“We do this in these neighborhoods in Judea and Samaria because of the threat we are facing.”

Military officials claim that there were no orders for the evacuation of civilians.

“IDF has allowed locals who want to distance themselves from combat areas to leave safely through certain crossings,” the army said.

But the residents of the camps say they were forced to leave, some of them are under fire.

Others say leaving instructions were delivered by drone.

A video from Jenin shows a drone flying over the camp, apparently emits a message.

“Get out of your homes, the army will be here,” the message said.

The recently appointed Palestinian governor of Tulkarm, Dr. Abdullah Kmeil, called Operation Iron Wall “Declaration of War”.

“You’re talking about a destruction operation,” he told the BBC. “Financial and mental destruction of residents. These are the things that the Israelis have planned exactly.”

The purpose, according to him, is to create a “hostile environment” for the residents of the camps in the hope that they are leaving and are absorbed by the common Palestinian population.

In the meantime, the Palestinians are struggling with many new difficulties, big and small.

In the village of Kabatia, south of Jenin, we found a driver frantically trying to turn from a muddy hole left by the Israeli bulldozers who had dug on the street.

His car had stuck in the middle of the road, holding traffic in both directions.

At the center of the nearby roundabout, a miniature replica of the iconic dome on the rock of Jerusalem was broken into pieces.

Despite Israel Katz’s warning, no one knows how long the operation and the restrictions on civilians will continue.

“If we can’t go back to our house for a year, it will be a disaster,” says Alaa Office.

“We will be left on the streets with the children.”